Re: EMC Drives

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 02:28 PM 5/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>      My parent company is considering purchasing EMC drives for their new 
>7XX 
>> AS/400.  They will be purchasing almost a terabyte of DASD.  Does anyone 
>> have any thoughts as to why they should or shouldn't do this.  Thanks in 
>> advance for any assistance.
>
>Eric:
>
>I had a *VERY* bad experience with EMC drives on a F35->510 upgrade about
>2 1/2 years ago.  EMC's support was absymal and we were down, COLD, for
>a full week.
>
>I *HIGHLY* recommend against EMC.
>
>IBM came through for us in the clutch and provided priority 1 support 
>(including having a VLIC programmer dialed in to our system) and got
>us up (with almost half our normal disk capacity, as the EMC drives 
>were identified at fault).
>
It would appear that the opinions are almost unanimous.  If you want to
install EMC drives, you should move to South Africa!

Al - in Lake Geneva




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